BEND, Ore. — I recently stole away to the coast for a weekend, landing at Rockaway Beach, a five-hour drive from Bend. The city is home to one of Oregon’s largest trees by circumference, which locals ...

In some beach towns, boardwalks lead to fried food and carnival games. At Rockaway Beach, the boardwalk leads to an enormous tree. Colloquially known as the Rockaway Big Tree, the western red cedar is ...

The Bear Gulch Fire, currently burning within the Olympic National Forest, has scorched 5,000 acres. However, a significant milestone has been reached as efforts successfully saved a one-thousand-year ...

The bigger they are, the harder they fall, right? When we lose big trees — the majestic and memorable — it hits us hard because we know it takes decades or even centuries for trees to reach those ...

First thing to know about mountain cedar: they technically aren’t cedar trees at all. What we call “cedar trees” are a type of juniper tree -- specifically Ashe juniper -- named after William Willard ...

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